Sentences with phrase «planetary geologist at»

«The fact that the concentration and diversity of life detected in this subglacial lake exists means there is a very good sign for the existence of life on Europa, even if the details are different,» says Cynthia Phillips, a planetary geologist at the SETI Institute in California.

Part of the Curiosity team, she's a planetary geologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Quick change Together with his colleagues Antoine Mocquet, a planetary scientist also at Nantes, and Christophe Sotin, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Grasset created a computer simulation to test the idea.

The notion of the Red Dragon missions «has generated a lot of interest, but we don't know a lot yet,» says Jeffrey Johnson, a planetary geologist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and chair of a NASA Mars analysis committee.

«What we have now is we actually have concentrations,» says Peter Schultz, a planetary geologist at Brown University who co-authored two of the Science papers.

Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who isn't involved in the mission, says it promises «data we've not had for Mars before.»

Hyperion may be unusual, says Peter Thomas, planetary geologist at Cornell University, in that it somehow retains those knocked - off bits on its surface.

Lynnae Quick, a planetary geologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, has been delving into this question.

«That's exciting,» says Linda Elkins - Tanton, a planetary geologist at the Carnegie Institution, «because it means there's a much larger chance that any planet in the universe could have oceans early on.»

Mars» volcanoes show evidence for activity over a larger time span than those on Earth, but their histories of magma production might be quite different,» said Jacob Bleacher, a planetary geologist at Goddard and a co-author on the study.

Unlike natural bridges on Earth, which form largely by erosion from wind and water, these lunar bridges probably formed as a result of an impact in the last billion years, says Mark Robinson, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe and principal investigator for LRO's camera.

Peter Thomas, a planetary geologist at Cornell, got a good look at Vesta when it came within 110 million miles of Earth last May.

«It has really helped to bridge the gap in our understanding of the Moon's past and deep structure,» says study leader Xiao Long, a planetary geologist at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan.

Not exact matches

Geologist Emily Lakdawalla, a senior editor and «planetary evangelist» at the society, has long worked to connect the public to the vast spacecraft image collections online.

Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, made the finding after combing through pictures from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

The discovery was made by Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., after looking through photographs from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Steve Ruff (planetary geologist, Arizona State University), Jim Rice (geomorphology of Mars and expression of water shaping the planet's surface, Planetary Science Institute), Hanna Nekvasil (volcanologist and planetary geologist, New York State University at Stonybrook), Martin Van Kranendonk (Archean geology and astrobiology, University of New South Wales), Bruce Damer (prebiotic chemist, University of California at Santa Cruz), Alex Longo (Columbia Hills enthusiast, high school planetary geologist, Arizona State University), Jim Rice (geomorphology of Mars and expression of water shaping the planet's surface, Planetary Science Institute), Hanna Nekvasil (volcanologist and planetary geologist, New York State University at Stonybrook), Martin Van Kranendonk (Archean geology and astrobiology, University of New South Wales), Bruce Damer (prebiotic chemist, University of California at Santa Cruz), Alex Longo (Columbia Hills enthusiast, high school Planetary Science Institute), Hanna Nekvasil (volcanologist and planetary geologist, New York State University at Stonybrook), Martin Van Kranendonk (Archean geology and astrobiology, University of New South Wales), Bruce Damer (prebiotic chemist, University of California at Santa Cruz), Alex Longo (Columbia Hills enthusiast, high school planetary geologist, New York State University at Stonybrook), Martin Van Kranendonk (Archean geology and astrobiology, University of New South Wales), Bruce Damer (prebiotic chemist, University of California at Santa Cruz), Alex Longo (Columbia Hills enthusiast, high school student).

At the first close approach, instruments detected a magnetic field, to the great surprise of planetary geologists — Mercury's rotation was expected to be much too slow to generate a significant dynamo effect.

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

Featured Speaker: Philip Skemer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, and Director, Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Associate Director, Institute of Materials Science & Engineering (IMSE); Principal Investigator, Rock Deformation Lab, Washington University in St. Louis Geologist and geophysicist Philip Skemer looks at how rocks can be deformed in the lab and how these experiments are providing new insight into the structure and evolution of Earth and other planets.

Sunday October 12, at 4 p.m, in conjunction with Lily Simonson's solo exhibition On Ice, CB1 Gallery will host a panel discussion entitled Exploring Antarctica: New Frontiers of Art and Science with artist Lily Simonson, her collaborator Dr. Joe Levy, a permafrost and planetary geologist from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, and Mary Miller, project director at the Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and human perception.